October Vagabonds

Two artists abandon the train from New York to walk hundreds of miles home through the late summer and autumn countryside, discovering that the journey itself is the only destination worth reaching. Richard le Gallienne and his friend Colin quit their rural hermitage and set out on foot, determined to resist the mechanical hurry of modern life. Along the weathered roads of a young-century America, they encounter farmers, drifters, strangers who become friends, and a landscape painted in the fading greens and first fires of autumn. But the true terrain they cross is internal: between who they were in the city and who they might become, between the hunger to create and the silence that makes it possible. Written with the lyrical reverence of a poet who sees the sacred in roadside detail, this is a book that argues for slowness as a form of wisdom, for conversation as an art, and for the radical proposition that we arrive at ourselves only by wandering.